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This Artist Is Creating 3 Paintings In 3 Cities, At The Same Time, With The Help Of Robots
Artist Alex Kiessling and robot friends will create three works, simultaneously. Will they all look exactly the same?
Viennese artist Alex Kiessling will create three pieces of art simultaneously in three different cities today (September 26) when he paints a picture on a canvas in Ovalhalle, Vienna, to be replicated using advanced robotic technology on canvases in Breitscheidplatz, Berlin, and London's Trafalgar Square.
The artist, who admits to a lifelong fascination with robots, will use two ABB IRB 4600 industrial robots, each 2.8 meters high and weighing in at 435 kilograms, which will be controlled via satellite to produce the Berlin and London artworks.
The robots' movements will be dictated by sensors that capture the movement of his hand and track the exact location of the tip of the pen using an infrared frame that extends marginally beyond the confines of the actual canvas so enabling any movement within this space to be registered.
Robotic assistance redefines the concept championed by Andy Warhol's Factory where assistants carried out the work of their master, Kiessling believes: "In this process, several pieces come to life at the same time in different cities worldwide in a decentralized global workshop or studio."
But though three identical artworks could be produced, he adds that he is more interested in the fact that minimal differences between the individual robots will lead to fine variations between the three. "It is not about copying each other," he insists. "It will be really interesting what the robots' output looks like but no matter how it looks it will fit together with my work because it is an experiment."
A further area of interest is the collision between one of the oldest means of cultural expression and one of humanity's most recent achievements.
"The question of whether human beings are ultimately toying with their own replaceability is something that has occupied generations of scientists, sci-fi writers, and philosophers," Kiessling adds.
Designed and used for industrial operations such as spray painting and welding, the robots' manufacturer ABB promises its IRB 4600s deliver "unrivaled path accuracy and motion control thanks to rapid acceleration and high maximum speeds."
But despite this, the team from Vienna-based interactive design / digital media experience studio Strukt that is working to bring Long Distance Art: Global. Studio. Vienna to life, face a number of technical challenges.
During tests, for example, as the robots kept pace with the speed of the artist's movements, one tipped over despite being bolted down. The large distance between each robot and its data source is another challenge.
In a typical industrial setting, the robots respond to a predefined, programmed series of movement instructions. For Kiessling's purposes, however, there are no pre-programmed routines. The robot is only notified of the precise location of Kiessling's pen. The sensors monitoring his movements will then relay "instructions" to the robots live.
Furthermore, care will need to be taken to ensure only the artist creates movement within the infrared frame used to capture every stroke. In one test the robot drew a long line across the full width of its picture when a fly landed on Kiessling canvas.
Long Distance Art: Global. Studio. Vienna. was conceived by the Vienna Tourist Board to promote the city as a tourist destination and showcase the MuseumsQuartier where Kiessling will paint—one of Vienna's centers for art, design, and culture.
The project's aim is to break new ground in art and tourism marketing, Vienna Tourist Board Chief Executive Office Norbert Katter explains.
"We are well aware that this is something of a gamble from a technological viewpoint," he says. "When it comes to the simultaneous transmission of art using robotic and satellite technology we have absolutely no knowledge to fall back on."
But the gamble sits well, he claims, with Vienna's "long-standing reputation as a pioneer in culture and the arts".
A live stream of the event on September 26 is available here.
[Images courtesy of Vienna | Alex Kiessling]


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Super Buddies
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- Review Date: August 26, 2013
- Rated: G
- Genre: Family and Kids
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Parents need to know that Super Buddies is the latest direct-to-DVD release in Disney's popular Buddies franchise, about a group of Golden Retriever puppies who can talk, naturally. This installment takes on the superhero genre with a story about the Buddies acquiring superpowers to help a peaceful alien race defeat one of their rogue, villainous members. There's a good bit of slapstick humor (people falling, getting shocked, turning into animals), and some mild peril as the evil alien tries to "zap" the protagonists and their pups. Overall, however, this is a mild live-action family film with the usual lessons about teamwork, family, and friendship -- but also about the power of literacy (in this case, comic books).
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Tween Bartleby Livingstone (Trey Loney) loves comic books so much, his Gramps (John Ratzenberger) throws him a special superhero-themed 12th birthday party. Bartleby's favorite comic series (written by a local author-illustrator) is about a young boy and his super-dog, Captain Canine (Colin Hanks), who's really an alien hidden in the body of a dog. On his fateful 12th birthday, Bartleby and his friends (each of whom has his/her own Golden Retriever puppy) discover that the comics are actually all true, and that they must help defend the peaceful alien nation against the evil Commander Drex, who has landed in Bartleby's town in search of the "rings of Inspiron." But the kids find the rings first, put them on their dogs, turning them into SUPER BUDDIES.
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The Buddies movies have taken on plenty of genres, so it's no surprise that this latest direct-to-DVD story is an alien/sci-fi adventure. Grown ups and kids used to alien movies will probably find the movie's representation of extra-terrestrials obviously just humans with giant computer-generated heads. But for the youngest Buddies fans, the aliens are non-threatening enough not to give them nightmares.
As tends to be the case with talking animal movies, the puppies all have sassy catch-phrases and accents, but this movie is just as much about their kid owners as the dogs themselves. The children save the day by figuring out that the comics aren't just pop fiction but an illustrated non-fiction account of an alien race's most treasured artifacts -- the very rings that turn the puppies into superheroes. With enough slapstick and silliness to make the kids giggle, parents who look beyond the awful alien depictions can rest assured that another Buddies movie will entertain their little ones.
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DVD release date: | August 27, 2013 |
Cast: | Jason Earles, John Ratzenberger, Michael Teigen |
Director: | Robert Vince |
Studio: | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |
Genre: | Family and Kids |
Topics: | Superheroes, Cats, dogs, and mice, Friendship, Space and aliens |
Run time: | 81 minutes |
MPAA rating: | G |
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Implementing Network Protocols at User Level (1993)
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Traditionally, network software hasbeen structured in a monolithic fashion with all protocol stacks executing either within the kernel or in a single trusted user-level server. This organization is motivated by performance and security concerns. However, considerations of code maintenance, ease of debugging, customization, and the simultaneous existence of multiple protocols argue for separating the implementations into more manageable user-level libraries of protocols. This paper describes the design and implementation of transport protocols as user-level libraries. We begin by motivating the need for protocol implementations as user-level libraries and placing our approachin the context of previous work. We then describe our alternative to monolithic protocol organization, which has been implemented on Mach workstations connected not only to traditional Ethernet, but also to a more modern network, the DEC SRC AN1. Based on our experience, we discuss the implications for host-network ...


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India is likely to write to the Department of Justice of the U.S. by the end of this week, seeking direct access to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-origin American national who pleaded guilty to doing the ground work for launching the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Headley is currently in federal custody in Chicago.
Highly placed official sources said the letter would be sent by the Home Ministry to the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking dates for having direct access to Headley.
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Yim, CM; Pang, CL; Thornton, G; (2010) Oxygen Vacancy Origin of the Surface Band-Gap State of TiO2(110). PHYS REV LETT , 104 (3) , Article 036806. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.036806.
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Scanning tunneling microscopy and photoemission spectroscopy have been used to determine the origin of the band-gap state in rutile TiO2(110). This state has long been attributed to oxygen vacancies (O-b vac). However, recently an alternative origin has been suggested, namely, subsurface interstitial Ti species. Here, we use electron bombardment to vary the O-b vac density while monitoring the band-gap state with photoemission spectroscopy. Our results show that O-b vac make the dominant contribution to the photoemission peak and that its magnitude is directly proportional to the O-b vac density.
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Title: | Oxygen Vacancy Origin of the Surface Band-Gap State of TiO2(110) |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.036806 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.036806 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2010 The American Physical Society |
Keywords: | RUTILE TIO2(110), OH GROUPS, TIO2, DISSOCIATION, O-2, WATER, REACTIVITY, DEFECTS, SITES, H2O |
UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Chemistry |
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Black holes have such strong gravitational fields that they attract large amounts of neighbouring gas and dust. This material forms an "accretion disk" around the hole – rather like the rings of Saturn. As the disk is compressed, frictional forces encountered by the material make it heat up and emit X-rays, which can be detected by astronomers to provide observational evidence for the black hole.
However, astronomers have long known that gravity alone is not enough to make the gas fall into a black hole. Before it can spiral inwards, the gas must also lose some of its orbital angular momentum (or spin) otherwise it would simply remain in orbit around the black hole indefinitely.
Until now, it was not clear how this angular momentum was removed, but scientists suspected that it was due to magnetic turbulence in the disk. This turbulence generates friction in the disk and drives a wind from it. The wind can carry away the angular momentum and therefore allows matter to fall into the black hole.
Jon Miller of the University of Michigan and colleagues have now produced the first observational evidence that magnetic fields are indeed responsible for this effect. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team studied a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way called GRO J1655-40 As intergalactic distances go, GRO J1655-40 is relatively nearby at "just" 10,000 light years away. The X-ray spectrum of the black hole shows that the speed and density of the wind from J1655's disk corresponds to theoretical simulations performed by the team for winds that are magnetically-driven.
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Wells Fargo's top executives all received a boost in total compensation last year, according to a regulatory filing made Thursday.
The higher compensation coincides with stronger financial results. In 2012, Wells posted earnings of $18.9 billion, up 19 percent from $15.9 billion in 2011. Revenue rose 6 percent in 2012, to $86.1 billion.
The San Francisco-based bank's CEO, John Stumpf, saw his 2012 compensation, which includes stock awards, rise 15 percent, to $22.8 million from $19.8 million the year before. But Stumpf's salary was unchanged, at $2.8 million.
Timothy Sloan, chief financial officer, received an 8.1 percent bump in compensation, to $9 million from $8.3 million.
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Westhoughton near Bolton, Greater Manchester Date of Sighting: 04 July 2009 Time: 00.05 Witness Name: Craig Howarth
I too saw these orange lights, about FOUR or FIVE of them. They all came from the same direction. All moving roughly THE SPEED OF A PASSENGER JET. They came into view one at a time; about 30 seconds apart. The shocking part is when they started SLOWING DOWN as they passed overhead, only to fade away shortly after. These are defiantly NOT the Chinese lanterns I keep reading about. When I saw the first orange light I thought it may have been a plane coming into land as I live under a flight path for Manchester Airport. I see planes coming head-on all the time with there bright white landing lights on; these sometimes look like lights hanging in the air as they come directly towards you and often get mistaken for UFOs. These orange lights I saw were TOTALLY INEXPLICABLE. I must admit I was a bit shook up to see something like this with my own eyes. It would be interesting to see if anybody else saw these last night.
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Hi Craig. I live in Marston Green, Birmingham, one mile from Birmingham International Airport. Last night at 11.25 our dog became uneasy and tried to get under a shelf in the toilet; very strange behavior for our dog. I then saw ONE ORANGE LIGHT in the sky coming from the airport. It flew over our house. Then ANOTHER came, and AT LEAST 20 MORE. They flew in a silent, straight formation. Estimated speed 600 to 800 mph. At approx 30 second intervals. THREE TRAVELLED TOGETHER. I could not make out a disc shape as they were bright. They flew over Chelmsley Wood, and off into Coleshill. All of my family and children saw this amazing event and we also phoned more friends and family in Chelmsley who also saw it. I have reported it to the MOD and suggest you do also. I believe that what I saw was or could NOT have been made on Earth. After this event there was no activity from our airport for about 2 hours.
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Hi Craig, I live in south London. Around 10.45pm, 4th July 2009, myself and two friends saw exactly what you described. We only saw THREE of these orange lights but they came one after another in about two to three minute intervals. They were very bright and very orange, they also seemed to have a transparent field / AURA around them. I was unable to work out their speed but it was AT LEAST JET SPEED, completely silent and maybe around the average height that a helicopter may hover at. I also managed to get a short video on my mobile phone.
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text: Home > Patients & Families > Visiting Hours & Information Visiting Hours & Information Visiting Hours White Plains Hospital offers expanded visiting hours for the benefit of both patients and visitors. Medical/Surgical Unit 10:00 am - 9:00 pm (4E, 4I, 5E, 5I, 5F, and the 3F and 4F Step Down Units) Pediatrics 10:00 am - 9:00 pm (Open visitation for parents and grandparents) ICU & CCU 10:00 am -6:00 pm 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Please call the waiting room prior to entrance) Maternity Center 10:00 am - 9:00 pm (Open visitation for fathers and siblings only) Neonatal Unit (NICU) 10:00 am - 9:00 pm (Parents may visit at any time except 6:45am-7:45am and 6:45pm-7:45pm) Food and Dining for Visitors The cafeteria is located on the main floor and is open Monday though Friday from 7:00 am - 7:00 pm. Vending machines located in the cafeteria are available at all hours. On weekends and holidays the cafeteria is open between 9:30 am - 10:30 am and 11:30 am - 1:30 pm and 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm. Area Accommodations Here is a list of area hotels and longer stay residences that are in proximity to the Hospital and have asked to be listed on our website. (Note that these listings are provided as a service to our patients and families but being listed does not imply an endorsement of any of these establishments by the Hospital.) Crowne Plaza 66 Hale Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 (914) 682-0050 www.cpwestchester.com Hyatt house White Plains 101 Corporate Park Drive White Plains, NY 10604 (914) 251-9700 www.whiteplains.house.hyatt.com Westchester Renaissance Hotel 80 West Red Oak Lane White Plains, NY (914) 694-5400 www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/hpnsh-renaissance-westchester-hotel/ Hilton Westchester 699 Westchester Avenue Rye Brook, NY 10573 (914) 939-6300 www.hiltonwestchester.com Residence Inn by Marriott-White Plains 5 Barker Avenue White Plains, NY (914) 761-7700 www.marriott.com/NYcwp Westchester Marriott - Tarrytown 670 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY (914) 631-2200 www.westchestermarriott.com Tarrytown Springhill Suites 480 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591 (914) 366-4600 www.tarrytownspringhill.com La Quinta Inn & Suites Armonk 94 Business Park Drive Armonk, NY 10504 (914) 273-9090 www.laquintaarmonk.com Furnished Quarters 25 Bank Street White Plains, NY 10606 (914) 848-7431 www.furnishedquarters.com Hampton Inn White Plains/Tarrytown 200 West Main Street Elmsford, NY 10523 (914) 592-5680 http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-york/hampton-inn-white-plains-tarrytown-ELMNYHX/index.html Smoking For the health and well-being of our patients, visitors and staff, White Plains Hospital is a smoke-free institution. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the Hospital or outside on the grounds of the Hospital campus. Patients & Families Visiting Hours & Information Map, Directions & Parking Area Accommodations Smoking Patient Bill of Rights Patient Responsibilities Advance Directives Gold Key Program About Your Stay Patient Resources & Support For Your Safety Getting Ready to Leave the Hospital Financial & Insurance Information Health Risk Assessments Direct To You Gift Shop Newborns Online Cheer Cards Guía del Paciente Lee nuestra guía del paciente en español.


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Jim Breuer
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2002 | Smoke 'n' Breu | Buy: Amazon | iTunes |
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2013 | Jim Breuer: And Laughter For All | Buy: Amazon | iTunes |
2012 | NickMom Night Out Season 1 | Buy: Amazon | iTunes |
2010 | More Than Me Tour documentary featuring Breuer bonding with his aging father. |
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2009 | Jim Breuer: Let's Clear the Air | Buy: Amazon | iTunes |
2007 | Live at Gotham (Episode 205) Host Features multiple performers |
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2002 | Jim Breuer: Hardcore | Buy: Amazon |
2000 | Jim Breuer: Heavy Metal Comedy | Buy: Amazon | iTunes |
1999 | Comedy Rx: Comics Come Home 5 Features multiple performers |
1998 | Premium Blend (Season 2) Host Features multiple comedians |
1998 | Comedy Central's Hi-Fi Party | |
1997 | Pulp Comics: Jim Breuer |
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2010 | I'm Not High Subtitle: (But I've Got a Lot of Crazy Stories about Life as a Goat Boy, a Dad, and a Spiritual Warrior) |
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A stand-up comedian since his high school days at Valley Stream Central High School in Valley Stream, New York, Jim Breuer worked in comedy clubs around the country for several years before deciding to become a regular on the New York comedy club circuit.
After being in New York for only seven months, he landed a gig on the nationally syndicated show, "Uptown Comedy Club," where he spent two seasons.
In 1995, Jim joined NBC's "Saturday Night Live," becoming best known for his original character "Goat Boy" and his impression of actor Joe Pesci. After a four-year stint on "SNL," Jim starred in the movie "Half Baked "alongside Dave Chappelle.
That summer, MTV also invited the comedian to co-host the popular show "MTV's Beach House." Additional appearances include numerous stints on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," as well as roles in several movies, such as "Dick" (1999) and "Once in the Life" (2000), and most recently, "Beer League."
Jim Breuer pioneered the "heavy-metal comedy" revolution, combining his love of rock 'n' roll with comedy. Backed by a full band, Jim continues to entertain packed crowds with his impressions of AC/DC's Brian Johnson and Metallica singing "If You're Happy and You Know It." Jim's "Heavy Metal Man" comedy tours also feature a mix of routines that have become cult favorites, such as "The Wizard," "Coming Home at 4 a.m." and "Party in the Stomach." It was this act that garnered him one of Comedy Central's "100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time"
In 2004, Jim began his career at Sirius Satellite Radio as the host of his own show "Jim Breuer Unleashed" on RawDog 104. After four years, the show became "Fridays with Breuer" on the combined Sirius/XM network.
2009 saw a distinct change in Breuer's comedy, which he asserted in his new special "Let's Clear the Air." The title winks at Breuer's reputation as a stoner as a result of movies like "Half Baked." But a majority of the material in the special demonstrates Breuer's biggest priority: family, specifically caring for both his daughters and for his aging parents. Breuer claims the special was inspired by an appearance by Bill Cosby on his radio program where the legendary comic talked about "inspiring people."
Around the same time, Breuer produced a documentary called "More Than Me" about Breuer taking his 86-year-old father along on a comedy tour. Breuer has become his father's caretaker and wanted to demonstrate the process of caring for your own parents, showing it can be done while keeping their dignity. The film premiered at 2009's Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.
Jim currently resides in the suburbs of New Jersey with his wife and three daughters.


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Significance and Use
4.1 These test methods are useful for characterization of raw, or compounded, unvulcanized rubber in terms of viscosity, or resistance to flow.
4.2 The data produced by these test methods have been found useful for both quality control tests and compound development. However, direct correlation with factory conditions is not implied.
4.3 Flow performance data permits quality control of incoming raw rubbers because the flow parameters are sensitive to molecular weight and to molecular weight distribution. Therefore, these test methods may distinguish differences between lots.
4.4 The shear viscosity or flow viscosity of compounded rubber batches in the raw (unvulcanized) state will not only be sensitive to the raw polymer molecular properties, but will also be affected by type and amount of filler, plasticizer or softener levels, amount and type of copolymer blend, and other compounding materials. These test methods can serve as a quality control tool for either incoming custom mixed compounds or for in-house quality assurance checks on production mixing. These test methods are useful for research and development of new products by measuring the rheological effect on a rubber compound of new polymers, resins, softeners, etc.
1. Scope
1.1 These test methods describe how capillary rheometry may be used to measure the rheological characteristics of rubber (raw or compounded). Two methods are addressed: Method A—using a piston type capillary rheometer, and Method B—using a screw extrusion type capillary rheometer. The two methods have important differences, as outlined in 7 – 10 and 11 – 14, respectively.
1.2 These test methods cover the use of a capillary rheometer for the measurement of the flow properties of thermoplastic elastomers, unvulcanized rubber, and rubber compounds. These material properties are related to factory processing.
1.3 Since piston type capillary rheometers impart only a small amount of shearing energy to the sample, these measurements directly relate to the state of the compound at the time of sampling. Piston type capillary rheometer measurements will usually differ from measurements with a screw extrusion type rheometer, which imparts shearing energy just before the rheological measurement.
1.4 Capillary rheometer measurements for plastics are described in Test Method D3835.
1.5 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ASTM Standards
D1349 Practice for Rubber--Standard Temperatures for Testing
D1418 Practice for Rubber and Rubber Latices--Nomenclature
D1485 Practice for Rubber from Natural Sources--Sampling and Sample Preparation
D3182 Practice for Rubber--Materials, Equipment, and Procedures for Mixing Standard Compounds and Preparing Standard Vulcanized Sheets
D3835 Test Method for Determination of Properties of Polymeric Materials by Means of a Capillary Rheometer
D3896 Practice for Rubber From Synthetic Sources--Sampling
D4483 Practice for Evaluating Precision for Test Method Standards in the Rubber and Carbon Black Manufacturing Industries
ICS Code
ICS Number Code 83.060 (Rubber)
UNSPSC Code
UNSPSC Code 41112502(Rheometers); 13101700(Elastomers)
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ASTM D5099-08(2013), Standard Test Methods for Rubber—Measurement of Processing Properties Using Capillary Rheometry, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2013, www.astm.org
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The Texas Tech Red Raider basketball team suffered their fourth straight loss last night as they fell 92-84 on the road to 20th ranked Missouri. Keep reading to get the whole story and see what's next up for Tech.
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Catholic identity requires that the College community understand its ecclesial nature and mission.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - �By its very nature, each Catholic university makes an important contribution to the Church's work of evangelization. It is a living institutional witness to Christ and his message, so vitally important in cultures marked by secularism, or where Christ and his message are still virtually unknown.� (Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities)
Notre Dame�s decision to confer an honorary Doctor of Law Degree upon a President who fails to recognize the Right to Life has a silver lining. Catholics in America are saying �Not in our House�. Notre Dame is named after the Woman who�s �yes� to the Angel forever changed human history. The Incarnate Word became flesh and dwelt within Our Lady. Jesus was an embryonic person and developed as a child in the first home of the whole human race, the womb of His Holy Mother. That fundamental truth lies at the heart of the Christian claim. Every procured abortion is an intrinsically evil act because it is the taking of innocent human life. It can never be accepted as a �right� even if the errant positive law proclaims if to be so. The Natural Law written on every human heart confirms what science demonstrates, the child in the womb is one of us.
This U.S.President who calls us to care for our neighbor has a terrible blind side in his claims to compassion and solidarity. He fails to hear the cry of the poor in the womb. In the words of the Bishops of the United States: �The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.� In spite of the sophistry of Fr. Jenkins, Notre Dame has overtly disobeyed this clear instruction.
The challenge faced by all serving the Church as she is present in the Catholic College community can be understood within a broader challenge facing the whole Church, what the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council called the �separation between faith and life.� This separation was addressed in their document on the Mission of the Church in the Modern World: "This council exhorts Christians, as citizens of two cities, to strive to discharge their earthly duties conscientiously and in response to the Gospel spirit. They are mistaken who, knowing that we have here no abiding city but seek one which is to come think that they may therefore shirk their earthly responsibilities. For they are forgetting that by the faith itself they are more obliged than ever to measure up to these duties, each according to his proper vocation. Nor, on the contrary, are they any less wide of the mark who think that religion consists in acts of worship alone and in the discharge of certain moral obligations, and who imagine they can plunge themselves into earthly affairs in such a way as to imply that these are altogether divorced from the religious life. This split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors of our age."
Western culture would not be in moral decline if Catholics lived their Christian faith in an integrated manner,in the words of Pope Benedict with "moral coherence". It was to respond to this challenge that the late Servant of God, John Paul II, called for a �New Evangelization.� That call has borne fruit throughout the entire Church, including in the new Catholic Colleges and the renewed and restored Catholic Colleges. They are a primary resource for the work that must be done. The Catholic College must become the front line. Before Antioch, where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians, they were often referred to as �The Way� (See, Acts 22). Their lifestyle was different from that of the prevailing culture. Their faith informed how they lived their daily lives. It also made their evangelizing and sanctifying mission extraordinarily fruitful. This new way of living is still meant to be normative among those who bear the name Christian. Its� recovery is essential to the mission of the whole Church in the Third Millennium.
Catholic Identity
Within the Catholic College there has been an erosion of Catholic identity on many campuses. Catholic identity requires that the College community understand its ecclesial nature. In an institution, just as in persons, it begins from the inside and works its way throughout like leaven or yeast in a loaf. Catholic identity must become the beating heart of a Catholic College and provide the infrastructure for its entire educational mission. When it does, the building of a Catholic culture on campus becomes a fruit. This kind of Catholic culture helps to ensure the integration of the faith in every aspect of the academy through word and witness. It flourishes when all who are involved in this educational mission, from the Catholic College President to the Professor in the classroom, first view themselves as disciples, lifelong learners, followers of the Teacher, Jesus Christ.
This response is lived within His Body, the Church, into which they have been incorporated through Baptism. That Church is by its very nature, a teacher, and they participate in her educational mission. In speaking of herself, the Church often notes that she is an �expert in humanity� who �walks the way of the person�. The Church is, both �Mater et Magister� �Mother and Teacher.� Education is not something the Church adds something to, as though the process of educating were some kind of nakedly secular pursuit which the Church somehow makes �religious�. Rather, education is at the core of the Churches� saving mission.
The Catholic College President
The articulation and sustenance of this vision and mission are the primary responsibility of the Catholic College President. Such a President must understand his/her task as pedagogical, pastoral, catechetical and developmental. All leadership within the Catholic College is a part of the Catholic ecclesial community and participates in the leadership of the Church. Catholic College Presidents need to understand the uniqueness of Catholic leadership, believe it, and live it. Catholic identity should be the first criterion considered in choosing Presidents and the measuring stick for their regular performance review. It should motivate their service, and inform everything that they do in discharging their office. The Catholic College President is at the service of the Catholic Church and then through her called to prepare leaders for the world. He or she should understand the implications of the faith on the entirety of the educational mission. They are not simply secular professionals offering their skills in a Catholic College. They participate in the saving mission of the Catholic Church. The students entrusted to their care are �living stones being built into a spiritual household� (I Peter 2:5) who have been called to build the future. Their call as Catholic College Presidents is to articulate a compelling vision and mission in word and deed and help the academic community placed in their care along the Catholic way.
I have seen how clear vision and leadership can transform a Catholic College. I will end by sharing a brief part of my personal experience. The full story can be found in several books. As a young man, after almost two years in a Benedictine monastery, I finished my College education in a little College in Ohio. I followed a priest friend there. He had been invited to save the school from impending disaster through becoming its President. It was already morally and spiritually bankrupt and would soon be financially so without a rescue plan. He prayed intensely about the invitation and offered to accept upon a condition. The Board had to give him freedom to rededicate the school as a Catholic school to Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life with full adherence to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. The Trustees agreed.
When I arrived on campus three of the four dormitories on campus were empty. The theology major had been cancelled for lack of interest and there was talk of discontinuing daily Mass due to lack of attendance. I moved into an empty dorm and led one of the first �faith households�, the nucleus of a new model of student life implemented as a part of the vision of this Catholic College President. Students were to live a common Christian life in the wing of a dorm which included attending Mass, studying the faith together, engaging in mission and supporting one another to live full Catholic lives within a College environment. That wonderful little College became the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Under the leadership of Fr. Michael Scanlan the College of Steubenville was built into a dynamically orthodox global Catholic University. Now it is only one of many jewels in the growing Crown that is the recovery of Catholic higher education. What happened at Steubenville is not an isolated story. It is happening in other Catholic Colleges. It requires a rediscovery of and full commitment to Catholic identity. We need to learn from Notre Dame: Catholic Identity is Not Optional
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Type: | Freeride, Freestyle, All Mountain |
Shape: | Directional Twin |
Camber: | Rocker, All Terrain Rocer |
Flex: | Soft/Medium |
Width: | Regular |
Mounting Pattern: | 4x4 |
Sidewall Type: | Sidewall |
Core: | Rhythm Core |
Base: | Extruded, 2000 |
Sidecut: | Progressive, Hyper Progressive |
Stance Setback: | 1.9 cm |
Ability Level: | Entry Level, Intermediate |
Manufacturer Warranty: | 1 Year |
Description: K2 Bright Lite Snowboard - Womens
The K2 Bright Lite Snowboard might be a women's board and feature graphics that are clearly of the feminine touch, but that does not stop it from being an absolute beast on the snow. The all-terrain rocker makes it extremely versatile when combined with the Twin Hyper Progressive shape, setting this board for freeride, all-mountain, and freestyle performance. The soft/ medium flex is a great blend of responsiveness and rigidity, bringing together the Bright Lite as one of the most amazing boards available.
Key Features of the K2 Bright Lite Snowboard:
- All Terrain Rocker
- Hybritaper
- Rhythm Core
- Baseline: All Terrain Rocker Tweakend
- Damping: Standard
- Construction: Hybritaper
- Shape: Twin Hyper Progressive
- Stance:3/4" Setback (19mm)
- Core: Rhythm Core
- Additives: Standard
- Glass: Biax/ Biax
- Base: 2000 Extruded
- Base Bevel: 3 degree
Length (cm) | 138 | 142 | 146 | 149 | 151 |
Effective Edge (cm) | 108.34 | 111.18 | 116.26 | 117.97 | 118.8 |
Tip Width (cm) | 27.33 | 27.56 | 28.02 | 28.07 | 28.30 |
Tail Width (cm) | 27.23 | 27.41 | 27.92 | 27.97 | 28.20 |
Waist Width (cm) | 23.20 | 23.4 | 23.6 | 23.7 | 23.8 |
Sidecut (m) | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 |
Bright Lite
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Love this board. Great colors and super fun all over the park! I love this board! Perfect for my level right now!
Great board
This was my second snowboard. It's super light and maneuverable. Definitely recommend for beginners/intermediate. It works for riding switch too.
Love it!
I have had a lot of fun with my new board this year. I contemplated between the K2 Bright Lite and the Burton Lipstick and I'm glad I went with this board. The price was great and I'm very happy with it.
This board more than reached my expectations. It's light and the work on it is out of this park. Paired with the flex bindings I couldn't be happier.
Super excited
Just bought this and have not been on it yet. My friend had The BL last season and I got a chance to take it on a few runs. Awesome! Very fun to ride.
Great beginner board!
This was the first snowboard I bought after learning on a rental for the past two seasons.. A friend of mine recommended this board and I absolutely love it. I would definitely recommend this to any beginner.
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good price and decent reviews...I hope it works out!
Aimsterot on Jan 5, 2015
K2 quality, color scheme, intermediate all mountain board
Shamane M on Nov 29, 2014
Christmas present for my daughter; she needed a new board for all around riding (no rails) maybe some jumps; 154cm will be a big upgrade to what she has; more speed and stability with larger board ; Amber at customer service was very helpful and thought this would be a great fit.
Gerald L on Dec 18, 2014
Based off multiple reviews and looking to find my 2nd board. Hoping this will be the one!
Carl P on Nov 25, 2014
I love this board, but am not a beginner. I generally just prefer to ride fast and carve down the hills....is this board going to be fast enough for intermediate?
Best Answer: The K2 Bright Lite is a good all mountain board at a good price. They took out all the bells and whistles and made a straight forward go anywhere board. You could ride top of the mountain in powder and take groomers into the park if you'd like. Great board for the price!!!
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· shhhhweberStaff on Oct 24, 2014
I'm looking to buy my first board. I'm 5'8" about 140 lbs and wear a size 8 boot. Wondering if this would be a good entry level board (151)? I snowboard almost exclusively on groomed hills. I'm at the point where I can link turns and I'm not really comfortable going "fast" down the hill. I stopped by the house to talk with a rep and didn't know about the K2 at the time. He recommended the Forum Sauce. Wondering how this compares and if the K2 would be a better choice. Thanks!
Best Answer: I really wish I could help you. The problem is I bought thisboard for my ex-girlfriend. She lives in Texas. She was supposed to move with me to breckenridge but she has the comcommitment and integrity of a harlet in the redlight district. Therefore... I have no insight as to how well this board performs.
is it durable to rough use?
Best Answer: My wife is a groomer run snowboarder....she isn't real hard on her equipment....I had a K2 slyblade and it was my favorite stick I beat the crap out of it for two seasons until it was stolen I believe K2 stands behind their boards with a 5 year warranty
What is the difference between freeride and freestyle and why do they suggest a longer board for freeride?
What is the difference between this board and the 2014 K2 Bright light?
Best Answer: The difference would be mainly in the Shape, the type, and the Chamber the older board has a all mountain type use which can be park, back county or just freedide. The shape is all about how you'll be riding weather is more goofy and a little bit regular or vise versa.


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The Old Orlando Railroad Depot built in 1889 still stands alongside the modern SunRail station
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Address | 4 Depot Place and West Church Street Orlando, Florida |
Line(s) | SunRail: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | Lynx: Lymmo Orange and Grapefruit Lines[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | At-Grade | ||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | Nearby Street and Garage Parking | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1889[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Owned by | Florida Department of Transportation | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | Orange | ||||||||||||||||||||
SunCard | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2014) | 435 daily | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Old Orlando Railroad Depot
Location | Orlando, Florida, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 28°32′24″N 81°22′50″W / 28.54000°N 81.38056°WCoordinates: 28°32′24″N 81°22′50″W / 28.54000°N 81.38056°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1889[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | T. B. Cotter[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Eclectic Victorian,[2] Shingle Style[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Governing body | Private | ||||||||||||||||||||
NRHP Reference # | 76000604[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | April 22, 1976 |
Church Street Station, also called the Old Orlando Railroad Depot, is a historic train station and commercial development in Orlando, Florida. The historic depot and surrounding buildings house a retail and entertainment center. The complex also contains a stop for SunRail, the commuter rail service of the Greater Orlando area.
The station building was constructed in 1889 by South Florida Railroad. It served several different railroads until 1926, when passenger services transferred to what is now the Orlando Health/Amtrak station. In the 1970s, the station and nearby buildings were bought and developed into an entertainment center. After its original owner sold the development in 1989, Church Street Station experienced a period of decline. In 2013, St. Petersburg businessman Mark Ferguson signed a 20-year lease with an option to purchase in hopes of turning the property around.[4]
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad[edit]
The station was originally built by the South Florida Railroad in 1889 (although some sources say it was built in 1890) to serve Orlando. The South Florida Railroad was bought out the Plant System in 1893, which in turn was taken over by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. The station also served the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad and the Orlando and Winter Park Railway. In 1926 passenger operations were transferred to Orlando Health/Amtrak station. The Church Street depot still survives to this day on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
The SunRail commuter rail project uses the historic Church Street Rail Depot as one of three stops in downtown Orlando.[5] A new platform on the same side of the tracks was built down the block from the Church Street Station, within walking distance of Orlando City Hall. The station, one of two located in the central business district, provides easy access to the planned Performing Arts Center and hotel development within the same block, the Citrus Bowl, which is currently undergoing a complete renovation; the proposed Orlando City Stadium; future home of the Orlando City Lions MLS soccer club; and the new Amway Center and proposed entertainment complex, home of the Orlando Magic NBA team[6]
Night club complex[edit]
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Based on the Rosie O'Grady's/Seville Quarter complex opened in Pensacola, Florida in the late 1960s by entrepreneur Bob Snow, Rosie O'Gradys/Church Street Station in Orlando saw great popular success in the 1970s and 1980s as it operated as an attraction offering admission to multiple nightclubs of various formats) facilitating "club hopping" for a single price in a monolithic location. It spanned both sides of Church Street and both sides of the railroad tracks.[7] Walt Disney World emulated the successful formula, opening its own Pleasure Island club district amidst Church Street Station's peak years of success, as did Universal Studios Orlando with its "City Walk" complex. The attraction's developer proceeded to develop a similar venue in Las Vegas, "Main Street Station" that at inception shared many club concepts with the Orlando facility.
As an attraction, Church Street Station eventually experienced a steep decline in attendance and had largely closed as a club-hop by the end of the 1990s.[7]
Several attempts have been made by multiple owners to re-create the success of the mid-1980s. Today there is a relatively new improv venue in what used to be a restaurant. The area immediately around the station is slated to become downtown apartments.
With foreclosures and serial disappointments duplicating the successes of the past, the future of the development remains questionable. A source of probable stimulus will likely occur with the new Amway Center. Across Interstate 4, Orlando's new entertainment arena has been constructed on Church Street, within close walking distance of Church Street Station. The arena, home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA, opened to the public on Oct. 1 2010.[8] Nearby businesses anticipate a boost in traffic as arena customers hit the streets before and after events.
SunRail revived the station in 2014 as a commuter rail stop.[6]
The former Rosie O' Grady's Good Time Emporium restaurant and entertainment venue — sold in June 2010 for $2.2 million to downtown commercial property owners Frank Hamby and Margaret Casscells. The new owners are transforming the 14,335-square-foot (1,331.8 m2) building into the New Orleans-style MoJo Bar & Grill.
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- 1972: Entrepreneur Bob Snow announces plan for a downtown Orlando entertainment complex.
- 1974: Snow opens Rosie O'Grady's.[7]
- 1976: The station is added to the National Register of Historic Places
- 1982: Cheyenne Saloon & Opera House opens.
- 1985: Church Street Station draws 1.7 million visitors, making it the fourth-largest tourist attraction in the state after Walt Disney World, Sea World and Busch Gardens.
- 1988: Snow sells 50 percent interest in Church Street Station.
- 1989: Snow sells remainder of his interest to a subsidiary of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.; total cost of the two-step deal: $61 million to $82 million.
- 1994: Church Street Station completes major expansion with a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) Presidential Ballroom for $5.5 million.
- 1998: Church Street Station loses $1 million on revenue of $20.85 million, attracts only 550,000 visitors.
- 1999: Baltimore Gas & Electric sells Church Street Station to Enic PLC, a British firm, for $11.5 million.
- 2001: Enic PLC sells Church Street Station to F.F. South & Co. for $15.9 million
- 2002: Lou Pearlman buys into Church Street Station, later becomes majority owner.
- 2007: Pearlman's financial troubles trigger foreclosure lawsuit against Church Street Station.[1][dead link]
- 2007: Cameron Kuhn (Developer) purchased church street station at bankruptcy court auction due to financial issues of former owner Lou Pearlman Trans ContiTnental Empire. The property was purchased by Kuhn for $34.1 million.
- 2008: Church Street Station retail opens including The Cheyenne Saloon by Bob Snow, Bliss Ultra Night Club, Brick and Fire Pizza and Wine Company, Ceviche Tapas Restaurant and Bar, The Dessert Lady and Hamburger Mary's.
- 2008: Lender Tremont Net Funding LLC file to foreclose on the property while Mr. Kuhn tries to retain control & negotiate the re-sell of the complex.
- 2010: Historic Church Street Station RR FRISCO 0-6-0 Switcher #3749 Locomotive which has been on display for many years at the station was put up for sale.[2]
- 2010: The Amway Center arena opened on West Church Street and is already bringing an influx of business to Church Street vendors and establishments. In the long term the new arena is expected to at least stimulate partial revitalization to the complex.
- 2014: SunRail commuter rail begins service with its platform beside the original station[9]
- ^ http://interactive.orlandosentinel.com/sunrail/churchstreet.html
- ^ a b c "Old Orlando Railroad Depot". Florida Heritage Tourism Interactive Catalog. Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs. 2007-02-23.
- ^ a b c d "National Register of Historical Places - Florida (FL), Orange County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-02-23.
- ^ Florida Trend magazine October 2013 page 94
- ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2014/04/a-virtual-ride-to-3-downtown-sunrail-stops.html
- ^ a b (SunRail)
- ^ a b c Church Street Station (Orlando Memory)
- ^ "MAGIC: Events Center". Orlando Magic. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ^ Sunrail.com
External links[edit]
- Orange County listings, Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- Church Street Station (SunRail)
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- Visitor attractions in Orlando, Florida
- Railway stations opened in 1889
- Buildings and structures in Orlando, Florida
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
- National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Florida
- SunRail stations
- Shingle Style architecture in Florida
- Historic Florida architecture 1989 AIA survey listings in Orange County
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Remind me. How long were the Patriots the laughing stock of the league? Allot longer than the Texans have been around I can assure you.
How about the Buccaneers before they won the SB? Just to name a few. You act as if the Texans are the only team in the league who are up and down.
Stop crying and whining. Talk about a bunch of Nancy's...
You would be wrong. Patriots were making the playoffs regularly, went to a Super Bowl, then up until 1986-1996 when they went to the Super Bowl, again! WHAT! The "laughing stock of the league" WENT TO A SUPER BOWL! How on earth did that happen, OH YEAH that got a f'ing coach that knew what he was doing and a QB that was good.
Tampa Bay didn't take off until new ownership in 1997 then took what 5 years after that to win? So you would be wrong on them considering Texans got new ownership 11 years ago and haven't been to a Super Bowl yet....
When the hell were the Texans ever up? They have ALWAYS been down. They win a division, but blow a chance for a #1 seed by going on a freaking 4 game losing streak. You call that being up?
You have the same mentality as those jackholes on Kirby, a losing mentality. Mediocrity is sufficient enough for you, even if has been 10+years while teams like the Saints, who went threw their woes, turned it around in 1 freaking year. A team like SF, who went through their woes, turned it around in 1 freaking year. Texans are on year 11 now and it is the same BS year after year. Tired of listening to the same recycled BS from Kubiak and Schaub. "It's on me, I need to get those guys more prepared, yada yada freaking yada. It has taken Kubiak 8 years and guess what, THEY STILL ARE NOT PREPARED EVERY SUNDAY!
You go ahead and continue to wear your Schaubiak colored glasses cause you are just as blind with them on than with them off...
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In property testing, the concept of distance is crucial and is often defined using the Hamming distance between objects. For instance, a function's distance to monotonicity is often defined to be the fraction of domain points at which it needs to be modified to make it monotone. How does the situation change when the underlying distribution used to measure the distance is not uniform. In this paper, we look at arbitrarty product distributions, and essentially show the quality of a monotonicity tester is worst for the uniform distribution. More precisely, we prove that the query complexity is essentially the entropy (but not quite) of the product distribution by exhibiting simple testers and not-so-simple lower bounds. Our results hold for a general class of properties which we call bouned derivative properties.
In a breakthrough in 2011, Svensson showed that the value of the optimum makespan can be estimated up to a factor of 1.95, in the restricted assignment setting. However, a polynomial time algorithm to obtain a schedule achieving the corresponding makespan is as of yet not known. In this paper, we look at a special case of restricted assignment problem where jobs are of two sizes - 1 or eps. We demonstrate a polynomial time (2 - delta) approximation for some constant delta > 0 which doesn't depend on epsilon.
In 1976, Wolfe proposed an algorithm to find the minimum Euclideam norm point in a polytope. He proved finite convergence of his algorithm, although the known running time is exponential in the number of vertices of the polytope. In 1980, Fujishige observed that Wolfe's minimum norm point algorithm can be used to minimize submodular functions by running it on the function's base polytope. In practice, it has been observed that this Fujishige-Wolfe minimum norm point algorithm works decently well, although, no theoretical guarantee (apart from Wolfe's) was known. In this paper, we make some progress. We prove that Wolfe's algorithm has 1/t convergence, in that, in O(t) iterations it returns a t-approximate solution. Along with a robust version of Fujishige's theorem regarding submodular functions, this implies a pseudopolynomial time for submodular minimization.
Capacitated Network Design is the natural generalization of the SNDP problem, where we need to pick the cheapest subgraph of a capacitated graphs satisfying certain cut constraints. Unlike the unit capacity version, this problem seems harder. For instance, the directed version is label cover hard even when there's a single pair cut constraint. We give logarithmic approximations when there are global cut constaints, and when picking multiple copies of edges are allowed.
In an allocation setting where preferences of agents are orders over outcomes rather than cardinal numbers for each preference, the notion of social welfare is not well defined or agreed upon. Furthermore, when mechanisms are randomized, the concept of truthfulness comes into question. In this paper, wearing our TCS hats, we propose a notion of welfare called rank approximation. A mechanism has c-rank approximation if for all i between 1 and n, the number of agents getting their top i choices is within c-factor of the allocation tailored to maximize the number of agents getting their top i choices. We also propose a notion of truthfulness, called lex-truthfulness, in randomized ordinal mechanisms. This notion is nicely sandwiched between two notions studied in the literature. Equipped with these notions, we define matching market mechanisms which are lex-truthful and have optimal rank approximation.
The best known approximation, due to this paper, is based on what we call hypergraphic LP relaxations. This paper was independent and concurrent of their work where we study a list of hypergraphic relaxations and prove their equivalence. We also prove a "better-than-2" integrality gap, but this has been since then improved.
In this paper, we show that the capacitated network design problem is Label-Cover hard. Here, we are given a capacitated graph G and two vertices s and t. The goal is to find the smallest subgraph H of G so that s can route R units of flow to t. We also show a flow-additivity theorem for undirected graphs which, somewhat surprisingly, shows that the max flow between a set of vertices to a sink t is at least half the sum of the individual flows of these vertices (provided the set is minimal)
We complement our STOC 2013 paper with a matching lower bound of Omega(d log n/eps). This holds for adaptive, two-sided testers. On the flip side, this is only for functions which have unbounded range.
In Internet ad auctions, the search engine often has to "throttle" budget constrained advertisers to spread their expenditure equally across a specified time period. We ask how should this `budget-smoothing' be done? We put on our game theoretic hats and propose a notion of regret-free smoothing policies. We show these always exist, and for single slot auctions can be found in polynomial time via an algorithm which smells of Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance algorithm. Finally, we design a heuristic for budget smoothing which performs considerably better than existing benchmark heuristics.
We make progress on Boolean monotonicity testing giving the first sublinear (in dimension) algorithms. On the way we prove a new directed isoperimetry result, and use it to analyze random walks on the directed hypercube. Note: The proceedings version has a bug and the claimed n^{5/6} is incorrect and we can only achieve n^{7/8}. This has been corrected in the full version linked to above. Also check out the FOCS 2014 paper by Chan, Servedio, and Tan.
We give optimal testers for monotonicity over the hypercube and hypergrid domain. This settles a long standing question in property testing. Our methods are quite general, and applies to first derivative properties, which includes the Lipschitz property as well. The main technique is via matchings and alternate paths on the hypercube and hypergrids.
Motivated by a question in this paper, we study whether coverage functions can be recognized and tested. We give a polytime reconstruction algorithm for succinct coverage functions. At the same time, we show that without succinctness, even certificates of "non-coverageness" could be exponentially large.
We try to explore the notion of welfare in matching markets where the users have ordinal preferences rather than cardinal values. Our contribution is a definition, and to analyze two existing mechanisms (RSD + PS), and prove their optimality.
We study a generalization of facility location and minimum latency problems which generalizes a host of comb opt problems. We give (almost) optimal algorithms with logarithmic approximations, and constant approximations for special cases. On the way, we develop an LP based approach to minimum latency which we believe (but can't prove) should give better approximation algorithms for the same.
In this paper we describe a new "geometric" relaxation for the Steiner tree problem which turns out to be equivalent to the bidirected cut relaxation. It also shows an upper bound of 4/3 on the integrality gap for quasi-bipartite graphs, which at the time was the best known. The current best upper bound is 73/60 given in this paper.
Byrka et al. proved a 1.55 upper bound on the hypergraphic relaxation for Steiner trees. However, their proof was based on Robbins-Zelikovsky algorithm. In this paper, we give a shorter proof based on iterative randomized rounding.
The paper explores the following question: suppose an Integer program ( min c*x Ax >= b, x in {0,1}) has integrality gap a, where A is a 0,1 matrix, can one say anything about the "capacitated" version of the IP where each column of A is multiplied by an arbitrary positive integer? That is, is there a relation between a covering problem (say covering a line using intervals) with a version where each element has a demand and each set has a supply. We answer a "conditional" yes: we define a related 0,1-optimization problem called the priority version, and if the priority version has integrality gap b, the capacitated version has an O(a+b) algorithm. It would've been nice if b was O(a), and indeed we show in some problems that is the case, but this paper dashed that hope for general covering IPs.


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Q. Being the rookie out there, how does it feel to finish with a team-high 12 points, and you were putting on a show out there, how does it feel making a statement?
Catchings: It feels good. It feels good coming out here and being a big part of the run that the East made. I think the East has come a long way from getting blown out tonight. It was a great game. We had a chance. We had our chance to win it. That says a lot. I'm looking forward to 2003, and hopefully seeing what the East can do next year.
Q. Injury didn't seem to hurt you at all?
Catchings: No, not really. Wearing a mask, if anything, made me more fierce, knowing that I had that protective guard on my nose, it's like, "Okay, I can still do what I want to do. If I get hit, I get hit, oh, well, I'll keep playing."
Q. There has been a lot of talk about the young players coming into the League. Was it something to see the players that you kind of grew up watching, actually being out in the All-Star Game with them?
Catchings: Yeah, they are still here, right? I think just being able to watch players like that, that you grew up watching, like Dawn and Lisa, Tina, Sheryl, it's great for the young players, just to be able to be on the court with them, and to learn and to see how they are. I think there were things in the locker room we were talking about at halftime, they were making fun of Dawn, talking about her back door cut. It's like you're standing there and you just go; she's like, "I don't have those young legs any more and I can't keep moving like you guys do." It goes to show you, the older players, they are smarter than the younger players. You see us going and going and going, but the older players, they always seem to get open at the right moment. Players like that, just watching how far, where they started at and where they are now, I'm just hoping that one day I'll be as good as them.
Q. What did Lisa Leslie show you tonight?
Catchings: Man, she's a competitor. Just watching Lisa, even during the USA Basketball Trials, until you actually get on the court with her and are actually in her presence on the court, I don't think you really appreciate how good she is and the things that she's able to do. I think tonight, she came out and just showed why she is the MVP.
Q. Now that it's all over, what was your biggest highlight of the whole event?
Catchings: My biggest highlight of the whole event; playing the game, the game tonight. I think the best part about the game is the introduction. It was cool, coming out for the introductions, like a little kid, dancing and all that, it was cool.
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COOK 1 cup sugar, water and 1 Tbsp. vanilla in saucepan on medium heat 8 min. or until mixture is golden brown and of syrup-like consistency, carefully swirling pan every few minutes. (Do not stir.) Pour into 9-inch round pan.
BLEND milk and cream cheese in blender until smooth. Add eggs, and remaining sugar and vanilla; blend well. Pour over syrup in pan; place filled pan in larger pan. Add enough water to larger pan to come halfway up side of filled pan.
BAKE 1 hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Remove flan from water-filled pan; cool completely. Refrigerate 4 hours. Loosen flan from side of pan just before serving; unmold onto plate.


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